Artificial bait.



No. 825,232. PATENTED JULY 8, 1906. J. T. MITCHELL.

ARTIFICIAL BAIT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 21. 1903.

WITNESSES INVENTOR.

' Fig. 2 is a view in UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3; 1906.

Application filed March 21, 1903' Serial No. 148.993-

]0 all whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that 1, JOHN THOMAS Mrrorr- ELL, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Artificial Bait, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in artificial fishing-bait, and has special reference to a bait of this class which is especially adapted for alluring trout or like gamy fish.

The object of the invention is the production of an artificial bait having the appearance of a fish-egg, and thereby render it unnecessary to use. the natural e gs in fishing.

The above-mentioned an other objects equally as desirable are attained by the construction set forth in the following specification, disclosed on the accompanying drawings, and succinctly pointed out in the appended claim.

With reference to the drawings filed here- With and bearing like reference characters for corresponding parts throughout, Fi ire 1 is a perspective view of a plurality ,0 eggshaped bodies, showing them as clustered together to represent a section of a fish-roe, and

erspective of a fishinghook and shows a c uster of the bodies permanently attached thereto.

This invention comprehends either hollow or solid bodies, as 10, composed of any suitable material brought to there uired form to give the same the ap earance 0 natural fisheggs. As now considered, each bodyis composed of suitable elastic material, as rubber or the like,-as best serving'to insure the return of body to normal shape after being compressed or distorted by the bite of a fish. These bodies are brought to the desired form in any convenient manner, as by casting the material of Which they are formed in a mold of the required form and size to produce the bodies with an exterior surface resembling in shape that of the particular kind'of fish-eggs it is desired to imitate, andthe bodies 10 are, furthermore, conveniently iven a color or tint corresponding to that o the natural fishe gs imitated byapplying thereto a coating of suitable paint or enamel of the desired shade or by forming the bodies from material reviously colored.

T 's artificial bait ma be permanently at-- tached to a suitable fisliinghook, as 12, by 5 5 forming it about the hook at the desired point ,but I preferably form one of the bodies 10 with a small car or projection, as 14, in

which a suitable aperture, as 15, is provided 1 to receive the hook or to receive a suitable tie, as a string or the like, by which the bait can be conveniently detachably connected to the hook. r

As now considered, a plurality of these artificial fish-eggs are connected together inany suitable manner to form a bait resem-' bling a cluster of fish-eggs severed from a roe, and when the bait is secured to the hook a number of these egg-shaped bodies; are'en' tirely free thereof. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters, Patent of the United States of. America, 1s In combination with a fish-hook, an artificial bait comprisin an egg-shaped body havin the hook passed therethrough, and a plura ity of ,eg -shaped bodies secured to the first-named ody and being entirely free of the hook. Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 10th day of March, 1903. I

JOHN THOMAS MITCHELL. Witnesses:

ERNEST B. HERALD, ROBERT A. CULBERSON. 

